Chicago's Cox named to new vice provost post for institutional planning

STANFORD -- Geoffrey M. Cox, director of financial planning and budget and
associate provost at the University of Chicago, has been appointed to the new
position of vice provost for institutional planning at Stanford.

At Chicago, Cox directs a staff of 10 professionals who develop,
administer and monitor the university's $700 million consolidated, operating
and capital budgets. As associate provost, he assists in administration of
academic policy issues and faculty affairs, and supervises the graduate
financial aid office.

For the past two years, Cox also has been acting director of Chicago's
office of continuing education, which serves more than 10,000 registrants in
liberal arts, higher education, international studies, business and
professions, and the summer quarter.

He also teaches part time in the undergraduate college.

President Gerhard Casper, who announced the appointment, said that Cox
would bring to Stanford "his excellent grasp of the complexity of
universities and his personal commitment to academic pursuits."

"I'm very pleased that he will join us at Stanford," Casper said.

Cox will report to both Casper and Provost Gerald Lieberman, working in
conjunction with them and the deans on review and development of academic
plans and policies.

The decision to leave Chicago, where he has worked for 15 years, has been
"very difficult," Cox said. "But having worked with Gerhard Casper, I'm very
eager to be part of his new administration," he said.

Cox earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1977 at Knox College in
Galesburg, Ill., then went on to the University of Chicago to obtain his
master's degree the following year and his doctorate in 1987.

He served as a philosophy instructor at St. Xavier College in Chicago in
1981-82 and has been a lecturer in the University of Chicago's Humanities
Collegiate Division since 1986.

At Chicago, he occasionally has taught "Philosophical Perspectives on the
Humanities" and "Human Being and Citizen." Both are among the courses that
students can take to fulfill a graduation requirement somewhat akin to
Stanford's Cultures, Ideas and Values distribution requirement.

Cox serves as a member of several senior policy-making committees at
Chicago, including the president's council, the president's planning group,
the university budget committee, the faculty/administrative planning group,
the student planning committee and the campus planning and space allocation
committee. He also is a member of a task force that is developing responses
to the end of mandatory faculty retirement.

From 1984 to 1988, Cox was assistant to the vice president for business
and finance, where he coordinated projects in the offices of comptroller,
budget, internal audit, operations, safety and risk management, purchasing,
bookstore, telecommunications, printing, and facilities planning and
management.

He spent two years before that as Chicago's first full- time director of
benefits. In that capacity, he developed new investment options in the
faculty retirement plan and implemented the first update in staff retirement
benefits in 15 years. He also participated in contract negotiations with
several unions.

Cox and his wife, Stephanie Kalfayan, have a 4-year-old daughter, Taline,
and are expecting another child around Oct. 1. Cox said he would assume his
Stanford duties several weeks after the birth, probably around Nov. 1.

Kalfayan, who holds a doctorate in human development, is resigning her
Chicago position as assistant to the dean of the college, Cox said. She will
look for employment at Stanford.

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